skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Enschede is serviced by German rail operators though

Yes, there is a train service to Germany, but the majority of the connections from Enschede are to/from the Netherlands.

> In fact a lot of trains in this region of the world are operated by neighboring countries

If a service to Germany causes the whole station to be labeled as German, the website might just as well label Berlin as Czech, or Brussels as Dutch: CZ (Czech national railway) has train services that extend to at least Berlin, and NS (Dutch national railway) has trains to Brussels.
Is there any hope of turning this trend around or at least keeping it where it is? I don’t think that the months spent on my phone have benefited me or anyone I know.
Yet, people are confused by it. I think this is at least partly because there's even less to differentiate the different mastodon domains than there was to differentiate gmail and yahoo. And, of course, there are a lot of people growing up now who don't really use email, so the analogy can't be taken for granted.
I had a bit of wrist pain a few years (5?) ago, and my solution was a small 10kl mechanical keyboard (from Vermillo) with a good wrist pad (a wooden one) and a vertical mouse. Haven’t had a problem since. Everyone is different.
They are among the highlights for me every year. Just the right amount of brain melting information density.
McKinsey is the messenger, but who sends the messenger?
Taxes and regulation are also culpable.
I'm not on Twitter. And the jury is still out on BlueSky.

I'm happy to abandon BlueSky though as soon as it is revealed to be a shitsocket.
What Is Instrumental Convergence?
For me it's mostly a money issue. Then I'ld lose contact with my family and friends, so I'ld have nobody guaranteed to help if i have issues. Also, moving (far) requires a lot of money, then finding a new job, maybe even a better one than you had since the cost of living might be higher in the new place.
> This took any consideration of differences in design philosophy in a whole new (and much darker) direction.

Personally I consider the whole MCAS debacle a symptom of Boeings failure as an engineering organisation, and the prioritisation of commercial concerns above engineering concerns, rather than a change in philosophy. I still have the view that Boeing philosophy still deliberately leans towards putting the pilot in as close a link with physical plane as possible.

Ultimately I don’t really have a view on which approach is “better”, but I do think Airbus and Boeing have very different philosophies regarding aircraft controls. Even if Boeing has become incapable of expressing its engineering philosophies competently. I think it’s still useful to compare and contrast the two approaches, and there’s still things to be learned from how each approach succeeds and fails in different scenarios.
IMO Mastodon is the only real place for a truly decentralized option.

BlueSky became immediately political in its narrative and many people just view it in the same light as Truth Social now. It has a future, but the branding in very tainted.
I am so sorry, but while all this is great, the long term trajectory of the debt is still exponential. Nothing and no one can change the trend, although they could delay the end result of financial collapse by a decade or two at most. The end result is built in to the debt based nature of the instrument.
Must just be in the app then. Brave is supposed to block opening links in apps in iOS but it's broken lately.
English "dub": https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-wir-wissen-wo-dein-auto-steht-vo...
It's not digital in the sense that you need to show it on your device.

It's digital in the sense that it's electronically stored against your passport number, and the UK Border Force can see it just by scanning your passport.
Bluesky has potential with the AT protocol.

I think I had a flagged post on Bluesky, early on that just referenced something elsewhere - it was pretty harmless. And I remember a few X users trying the platform saying something vaguely controversial and getting a suspension. Or some such. I don't want to get into the ins and outs of censorship and free speech but you can get booted out the pub for saying something disagreeable in front of the bar hands or patrons. And I would be quite livid if I had invested in a platform and then got shut down.

The AT protocol gives you the ability to produce feeds. But it's actually the consumption aggregation and discover-ability that seems to the difficult bit. I feel we need a lightweight RSS style reader in browser to really get past this. There are weird hacks on Bluesky to subscribe to feeds. But it is messy. The feeds are where the magic potentially happens.

Twitter had become unpalatable before Musk bought it. And there were various crisis of confidence and herd threatening migrations, but people just couldn't be bothered. In its latest ungodly form people are still sticking around, or moving to silos and bubbles on other platforms, it's just a complete and utter mess at this point.

Platforms inevitably win out with convenience. Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp succeeded as people just couldn't share or publish photos or files easily. Combined with some magic discover-ability.

Twitter's collapse has been painful. But weirdly it was incredibly influential though low in membership.

My personal consumption of social feeds has been obliterated to nearly zero. I'm not sure if that's good or bad. I published for myself rather than an audience and had used Twitter just because it was easy. I have a broken computer at the moment and my entire dev stack / environment is in chaos. And although I think the barriers to publishing and self hosting are low there are still inherent obstacles.
The tie breaks were rapid, not blitz. And rapid is where Magnus' gap over #2 is the largest.

And no great player is bad at any time control - they're just 'less good'. Except Magnus - since he's #1 at everything he's just more or less dominant.
It certainly doesn't seem to so far.
Not only Magnus was saying he would withdraw if FIDE didn’t approve them also participating in the Freestyle league. Hikaru Nakamura was also saying he’d withdraw if FIDE forced them to choose between leagues.

FIDE conceded — and then punished Magnus for his jeans and refused to allow Hikaru to have cameras. It’s hard not to see it as political, given the context and fact FIDE went after multiple top level players.
Those downvotes. The amount of bile on HN against crypto is a mark of shame on this community.
This is true but still, Bluesky enables things that X just cannot.

I've spend hours building a website (1) that counts which members of the French parliament still actively tweet on X, and which actively use Bluesky.

The "analyse.ts" script for X did have to go through scraping, in a real browser connected to a real account. It got blocked every 30 or so profile views...

The Bluesky script was a delight, using the open no-credentials API (2).

Of course the Bluesky company can shut down their website or their API. But still, what this openness permits today is a significant difference from what X ever permitted. Their abstractions will stay and could be leveraged by another company with a team of 10 experimented developers.

1. The website is https://politix.top. Feel free to fork it for your own country.
2. Here is the Bluesky script https://github.com/laem/politix/blob/master/analyseBluesky.t...
Year 2024 ends on bad note for Boeing with twin 737-800 disasters on same day
I think sometimes the reactions are different because the facts are different. Your counterfactual seems less likely to me than eg Google photos analysing and indexing each image.
No support for conda packages/environments so uv is unusable for me unfortunately.
Serious question: would you include HN under the umbrella of 'social media'? If not, why not, where is the line?
While similar substitutes does also let you make some crude sparks, it turns out that the composition and quality of the grapes are crucial in the finessed focusing of energy needed for this application.

Only the grapes grown in vineyards of the finest châteaux are capable of achieving the maximum performance needed for bleeding edge grapetronics.

This propels France into a quantum computing superpower, being in sole control of the limited quantity coveted by nation states as strategic assets, with anciliary equipment such as Taiwanese microwave ovens manufactured by Tatung becoming a critical link in the supply chain.
To my understanding, removing downvoting removes a vector of abuse. ie: "downvote brigades" on Reddit

While Twitter doesn't have downvoting, it is still dealing with "report brigades" - various interest groups will organize via Telegram (or similar) to mass-report tweets they don't like.

I wonder if you could strike a balance by incorporating downvotes as a visual metric, but not using it to rank content, thus allowing the expression of dislike while removing the abuse vector.
Yes, all the innovations of today are the result of that wild world of that era. Before you become mature, you must have problems of growing up

No one regulated the number of mobile operating systems, and there were really many of them, even before the era of smartphones.
Now there are 2 main ones and a couple of outsiders, all the rest died in the competitive struggle
"I feel I'm on pretty solid ground here"

If you think so, you should publish your results. It seems like a lot of bright people are going down the road of using LLM for algorithmic tasks. To follow steps.

I think what I'm reaching for, is a little more esoteric, that out of all the data the model is trained on, that it has also started building up algorithms/steps in its 'model', which is part of how it pics the next item.

The whole reason algorithmic prompting started was people started noticing the LLM was already attempting some steps, and that if it was further helped along by prompting the steps, then the results were better.

But, I am using 'algorithm' rather loosely, as just 'steps', and they are a bit fuzzy, so not a purely math algorithm, but more of a fuzzy logic, a first start at reasoning.

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also, I should clarify. I am not confusing the algorithm to make the model versus the model, i'm saying in the model it learns to follow steps.
I say ChatGPTed it almost every day, or some form of it, OpenAI dropped ball on the name. Me and me friends say "asked CHatGPT, asked GPT, asked AI (but mean ChatGPT)" ... it hurts though as it's all too long and akward, no intuitive verb to use.

Probably just my limited perspective, but I am also noticing, it's vastly men who use ChatGPT daily on anything from random questions, to health queries or personal growth. Not sure why, but somehow, I don't know a single female who would use it much, beyond super basic queries. Meanwhile guys of all kinds of backgrounds, nerds or not, technical or not, young or old, doesn't matter ... if there is a heavy user, it's a guy. But as I say, just limited perspective, I don't know big enough number of people for substantial sample size. Just recently I see the stark contrasts more and more, even very smart, nerdy and highly curious women I know, are not interested in ChatGPT.
"Legacy cruft" can be code that's been providing business value for 50 or more years. The mainframe may be expensive, and IBM may love to nickel-and-dime you for every available feature, but it might still make business sense to keep using it. What's the point in rewriting all your code to move it off the mainframe if that will cost twenty times as much as maintaining the existing code while vastly increasing risk? While you may achieve cost savings by moving off the mainframe, they might take so long to accrue that it doesn't make business sense.
For thousands of items, do you even need one?
Thanks for adding that clarification.
This. You just can't trust anything anymore. Internet is done guys. Let's go back to real world.
meme language? seems you dont have much constructive to say :p
Scribber: 62% of this text is likely AI-generated.

Copyleaks: AI Content Detected.

GTPZero: 75% Probability AI generated.

Not to mention it also just reads like AI, even at a cursory pass.
What's the best way to protect banking apps on Android?
> a significant difference from what X ever permitted

I'm glad you specified "X" there; Twitter, of course, used to have a very good API. The bar has undoubtedly lowered.
Any easy way to aggregate all of one’s screen time data? On an iPhone, the data is limited to a few weeks in the screen time settings.
I think the differential privacy and encryption are meant to help with that.
"Openness",as far as for-profit businesses are concerned, is a marketing strategy. Once enough users are locked in, there is no reason to offer a valuable feature for free.
Silicon Valley: How can we DOUBLE that?
I'm an exemplar of the person you describe above. I started my blog on Typepad in 2004 and am in year 21, with things pretty much as they were in the beginning. When/if Typepad collapses (there are those who say it already has, since they stopped adding new customers in 2020 after being sold and posting is VERY janky and broken since then), I'll find a new home under the same brand name.

Back in the day, around 2010-2012, I averaged 15,000 page views and 10,000 visitors/day.
In recent years it's been around 500 page views/day, so about 3% of where I was at maximum blog.

The nice thing about being this marginal is that I can easily respond to each comment/email.
We fine-tuned Llama and got 4.2x Sonnet 3.5 accuracy for code generation
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8 hours won't even get me out of Sweden from where I live.
This "company" is strongly connected with previous government and their prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki (company owner is his close colleague), they work more like organized crime than legal entity copying the Russians. Sometimes, but not often, they even make some assassinations and I'm afraid it may be so in this case.

There was a female deputy Magdalena Biejat, now a president candidate, who was trying to make some public inquiry but the deputies from other party prevented that.

It all works because the former ruling party organized around themselves some kind of semi-religious cult consisting of around 1/3 of nation, usually older people that oppose everything they don't understand.
Interestingly:

- Bing: Goodreads is third result

- DDG: Paywalled NZ Herald article appears to be the only result.

Of course what you've really uncovered is that Google search is the only thing that respects robots.txt: https://www.goodreads.com/robots.txt
I have an HDR monitor and OMG it's so bright it's almost painful. So beautiful!
There are now multiple options for GUI editors. When I was using the Mainframe in 2016 through 2020 I was using multiple eclipse based IDE's that provided the ability to edit datasets on the Mainframe, submit and view jobs, etc. They couldn't do everything you could do in the ISPF interface but they made the Mainframe much easier to use.
How do you place so many? When you read about small fish manually betting on sports sites they get kicked off when winning too much.
Yep. When I worked at Apple and took the (Apple) bus to work, I would arrive early at the bus stop and wait with the other employees. Lined up, everyone had their phones out, staring down. Me, I was looking at the old out-of-comnmision payphone, at the cars going by, at the copies of "Avisador" in the busted newspaper stand.

Boredom is a good thing for the brain.

And, honestly, I must be of the older generation because I find nothing very interesting on my phone. It takes pictures and gives me directions. I'm a lap-topper.
Show HN: Talk to AI models through SSH
In Spain they soon will require V16 [0] too. Originally it was just a flashing light but then it was improved to use mobile networks to send an emergency call to authorities. And proving, that technically, it is possible to have something like ECall without deep integration into the car.

No need of having always on connection to the network, enable on emergencies only. Thus no remote hacking of SIM/base band possible at random times, or broadcasting presence until used. Mechanic or user can check battery periodically, replace if low, just like refilling wiper fluid. Car could even cut all other electric systems after deploying the integrated autonomous V16-like system.

Car manufacturers deciding to make their ECall implementations complex and privacy invading was their choice.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V16_warning_beacon_lights
You're mad that the US is acting in it's own best interest?
I said: "from their respective perspectives" - that is, subjectively. You're talking about objective facts. I don't disagree with you, but you're also not (visibly) disagreeing with me: we're discussing two entirely different things. Objectively, an egg on your face is not comparable to subjugation. Subjectively, there might be people willing to die or kill at the mere sight of an egg - it would be dangerous to put an egg on their faces.

Drawing a caricature of a prophet and killing the author of the caricature is objectively not equivalent or comparable. Subjectively, though, you'll find people willing to kill the author and get killed or jailed for life for it.

People and societies have beliefs and values that differ. Without understanding the adversaries' beliefs, no agreement is possible. If no agreement is possible, the only way out is to eradicate one side. It might work out for Israel, but it is impossible in Ukraine.

In any case, I just want people to stop killing each other. I don't think one-sided demands (no matter how objectively justified and no matter which side they originate from) will help end it. Russians won't "just" "simply" pull out, and Ukraine won't "just" surrender.
Then they’d have lost comms with the ATC which would have been mentioned by now surely? With two pilots incapacitated in a go-around procedure?
If you think BlueSky is political, Mastodon is worse.

Mastodon ends up creating significant echo chambers where admins ban communication with other instances for having people with different opinions to them (rather than just delisting in the public feed) and on can ban you and stop you moving your data to another instance.

On Mastodon, admins can also be pressured into banning users by other admins under fear of having their instances blocked, and admins are usually political activists.

I've avoided BlueSky because people are allowed to boast and defend being attracted to kids or spam death threats (including addresses attached), but not have differing political opinions, even when they're arguably mainstream.
Give it 10 or so years and The Thing(tm) will cycle around to the next thing.

Previously it was gaming (namely consoles), before that was TV, before that was comic books, and so on. Every generation has its "Spends Too Much Time on The Thing(tm)" stereotype.
Even Apple wasn't able to make VR headsets mainstream in 2024
Many repair shops will put old or cheap batteries in your phone. Even if they buy an expensive one they don't necessarily know what it is.

There are a lot of waterproof connectors on the market. They pretty much all work but if a standard is chosen it will absolutely be one that works.

I've used a good few battery powered tools, even cloths. If any manufacturer made [say] a drill with a glued battery I wouldn't use it if you paid me for it. You just walk to the charger, swap the battery and get back to whatever you were doing. There is nothing special about phones that deserves special consideration.

I wonder if the battery can be smaller if you can easily bring a few extra. My cameras have very small ones 700mah-ish specially when compared to the size of the camera. It is never a real issue. Just bring more batteries. Say phones have 4-5 times the mah and last 8 to 30 hours. You could slide on a battery with a bump and get 60 hours or a slim one with only 4-15 hours. That will eventually outperform the degrading cell.

I don't know where innovation is at but I imagine we could see new batteries with much better size to power ratio. If you already have the newest phone it would be a no-brainer.
It's not a low amount to Polish people - it can approach the territory of entire monthly or yearly wages.
I was using the Mainframe as an intern. Working in a Mainframe company it still took me three months to be able to write JCL from scratch with out needing help. It was a constant struggle until one day a switch flipped and I just understood the basics. I've never had another programming experience where I've gone from struggling to comfortable so quickly.
You might be interested in https://pub400.com/. They provide free access to a real IBM i (a.k.a.: AS400) server.
It won’t be this. People on that forum talk about hitting many more birds at much higher speeds with much less issues. The landing gear should have been deployed before the strike too? Happened at 200 meters I believe?
Wikipedia searches reveal differing styles of curiosity
Agreed. When it comes to flying people, the volume of a habitable starship is approximately equivalent to the entirety of the habitable volume of the ISS.

I really look forward to the heavy-lift future where full reusability means actual cheap spaceflight.
Self-hosting sounds good but the security concerns are just a bind. Plus you need stability. Like having a home. Our electric grid falls over at least once a week where we live. Yes I could use batteries, but no, I can't be bothered.
To some degree I have made peace with it.

Decades ago I would come home and crash in front of the TV — watching dreck.

At least in the evening I think the mind needs to disengage, relax. That can be found in watching "Forensic Files" or playing online solitaire or scrolling through BlueSky.

Perhaps reading would be a better substitute though.
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https://www.ibm.com/z/resources/zxplore has been a very useful resource for me.
This is the best comment on this thread: I hope others answer your question.

IMHO HN is social media, in fact the ONLY social media where I read the posts and comments, oftimes more informative and interesting than the posts.

I post to X many times daily but that's all I do there, using it as a sort of commonplace book/journal.

I never bother looking at my feed.
That's like 5 hours per day? Doesn't seem the case for me even I consider myself pretty addicted. I don't even have 5 hours of free time in total, including poop and food time. But maybe average Americans do spend more time then me.
I think I learned more about what DDD is from this article than most of my books on DDD. This is the right way to do a critique -- it starts out with an excellent Steel Man understanding of DDD and proceeds from there.

I guess they don't make em like they did in 2018 anymore!
Actually, it doesn’t have to be self-hosted for me.

A managed product, hosted by a company, that I can point to my domain would work (just like some blog or website makers solutions).

Discourse has managed option though, so thanks for pointing it out.